We lost Shardul on May 7. He was in his forties – healthy, full of life, an engaging conversationalist, a bird, rather nature, enthusiast, and a great brother. All in all, adorable and strong. A few months earlier, he had established a state-of-the-art dairy unit near Varanasi with help from his younger brother and other […]
This is the story of Dr. Vedaprakash, a Vidyadhan Scholar, who after completing his MBBS from Bangalore Medical College, is currently pursuing MS in General Surgery from the prestigious JIPMER, Puducherry. With the second wave of COVID-19 causing havoc across the nation and posing a huge challenge to the healthcare system of India, Dr. Vedaprakash […]
PHUTKAL is a name that rolls off the tongue effortlessly. You want to keep repeating it :-) In Purabiya (Hindi), the sound conjures images of sprouting shoots at the dawn of spring. The deciduous forests around Ranchi in Jharkhand, in fact the entire Chhota Nagpur plateau, bursts with colourful shoots in early spring every year […]
THE INDIAN SUB CONTEXT – NPC-AMASR AND CORRELATING THE BURRA AND INTACH CHARTERS 25. In the Indian context, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)’s National Policy for Conservation of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (NPC-AMASR) attempts to incorporate the “Values Based Approach” in Section 5 titled “Conservation of Monuments” and functionally link the […]
Compassion is the radicalism of our time – The Dalai Lama Meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama, listening to him is an effervescent experience. You leave light-hearted. And, if you are an Indian, it fills you with a deep sense of pride. Possibly, India couldn’t have had a more charismatic, popular and sincere Cultural Ambassador, […]
Pandit Gopal Shukla held the slightly squirming bundle tentatively and, looking at her big, watchful, unblinking eyes, announced without consulting the Almanac for once that they would call her Chaitali as the month of Chait had started and Ram Navami was round the corner. He beamed as he handed her back, his bow-shaped moustache straightening, […]
On Gandhiji’s birth anniversary, the day before yesterday, a cartoon of Bapu handing over his walking stick to a girl to defend herself was forwarded by a friend. It summed up what the believer in Ahimsa would have felt and probably done in times when news of horrific rapes, mutilation and murder of the victim […]
It was a freezing day at the peak of winter, when a city newspaper in a European country reported that the police had caught a young man running naked on the international airport’s tarmac. No name was mentioned. Just the initials and that he was from a foreign country. The police had caught him running […]
DELINEATION OF VALUES-BASED APPROACH – THE BURRA CHARTER 10. The Burra Charter outlines the ‘ideals’ of the values-based approach and is considered to be the most definitive charter in conservation practice today. The Burra Charter was first adopted in 1979 in the historic mining town of Burra in Australia and substantial changes were made in […]
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly, you hardly catch it going?” – Tennessee Williams “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met; all […]
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